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To remotely access any of the computers in the HPC lab, you must use a secure shell (SSH) client. There are several SSH clients available, most notably PuTTY, and the "SSH Secure Shell" available through Bevoware.
The name of the computers in the HPC linux cluster are "hpcXX.me.utexas.edu" where "XX" is replaced with the numbers 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, or 11; for example, one can connect through ssh to the machine hpc07.me.utexas.edu.
If you are interested in having X windows programs display on a Windows computer, we are currently recommending the free X windows server Cygwin. If you need to use Gambit, you must connect using a "-Y" flag instead of "-X". Another free choice is Xming (though we are aware that Xming and the Gambit software associated with Fluent don't operate well together). Two commercial alternatives exist as well, Exceedp, and Xwin32, but the ME Department does not provide these.
If you are interested in having X windows programs display on an Apple computer, an X windows server comes in the "optional install" software on your OS X install disks.
In order to run Mathematica remotely on the HPC Linux cluster, you must copy the Wolfram fonts to your local machine (Windows, Apple, or Linux). The fonts are located in /usr/local/Wolfram on the HPC machines. In Linux or OS X, simply copy this to /usr/local/Wolfram on your local machine. In Windows, if you are using Cygwin, you can copy the /usr/local/Wolfram directory to C:/CYGWIN/usr/local/Wolfram.